It has been a great decade to be rich. Since 2001, high earners have enjoyed the best of all worlds. Since World War II, tax rates at the top of the income ladder have drifted down to the lowest levels. Incomes have stagnated for the middle class but continue to rise for the wealthy. Recent […]
Anybody paying attention to politics may have gotten the impression that women are falling behind in the economy. This is one more reason to tune out politicians.
The nearly 800 trains that makes up San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit, better known as BART, have reached the end of the line. “We have the oldest cars that are currently running in the country,” says Dick Wieczorek, head of BART’S procurement department.
A series of steps by China in recent weeks is encouraging U.S. officials that Beijing is proceeding with changes to currency and other financial policies that the two countries have long disputed.
We have just surpassed the 11,300 mark on our Facebook page. We have a remarkable, loyal, and supportive fan base. Each and every one of you all have a vested interest in this Movement. You are all very passionate about our Country, the United States of America, and you will all defend her till the […]
The economic recovery has been driven by a manufacturing revival in the past two years.But the strength of that revival could be threatened by the challenges facing a small and beleaguered sector of manufacturing that evokes images of a quainter, more labor-intensive era: the tool and die industry.
As Ann Arbor Builders Inc. hops aboard the slow train to economic recovery, the company wants to bring along other American businesses.
Every country has them, those who say that the only thing wrong is that there aren’t enough people making enough things that can be dropped on their feet. That everything would be better if we could just have more of those good old manufacturing jobs.
Wage pressure in China transportation costs push U.S. companies to shift production back home. In the corner of a manufacturing plant in St. Charles, a dozen workers steadily assembled electric motors that, until December, were produced in China.
Advocates of a strong U.S. manufacturing industry are heartened by the prospects of more companies returning well-paying factory jobs to our shores. Boston Consulting Group forecasts the “reshoring” trend could create 2 million to 3 million jobs by the end of the decade — 600,000 to 1 million in factories and the rest in support […]
